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No, wait. That's not right. What a lame way to start off an important manifesto. Better try again:
I won't tread on you. That's where libertarians need to start in the 21st century if they plan for their message and proposed form of government to take root and last longer than that of the libertarians of the 18th who started by saying "Don't tread on me." It worked for a while at least, but did not affect a lasting change in mindset and policy because it started and ended with the wrong premise, the premise of "my rights," the "me" premise. If libertarians in this century plan to make any headway in the global and respective national dialogues about politics and the proper role of government, they must turn this premise on its head. They must start thinking the other way around. And I'm not simply proposing a change in how libertarians present their views, as a mere marketing tool, but a fundamental change in our very views themselves so that they reflect more accurately the true nature of humanity. The result will not only be a more successful fight for our beliefs- we'll end up by fighting for something even better than what we were previously fighting for, a better way of thinking and a better way of living.
Libertarian thought often starts with "me" and says to others "you shouldn't violate my rights," which is certainly true, but somewhat off-putting because it's egocentric. Aside from being off-putting, it's the moral low-ground. It's moral and true, but it pushes the moral imperatives of libertarian thought off on someone else. The moral high-ground is to accept and practice the moral imperative for yourself. Libertarians would always do better to say, "I shouldn't violate your rights- I won't violate your rights." In practice this makes a world of difference. On the issue of welfare and property redistribution, for example, the first approach would sound like this: "Who are you to take my hard-earned money and give it away to the poor? Even if I should give it to them, you have no right to confiscate my property from me." The second approach is a sharp contrast to the first in both tone and content: "Who am I to take your hard-earned money and give it away to the poor when I'm likely not even giving enough myself? Even if you should give it to them, I have no right to force you to, especially when I'm not giving enough myself. How hypocritical of me would that be?" See how much more humble that is and sounds?
The first example is a challange. Its tone is antagonistic and its premise is egocentric. The second example is an invitation and a catalyst for conversation. Its tone is humble and its premise is philanthropic- motivated by love and concern for other human beings and their rights. The distinction here can ultimately boil down to these alternatives, egocentric libertarianism on the one hand, and philanthropic libertarianism on the other. It is encouraging to know that in some quarters of libertarian thought, I might be "preaching to the choir." For people who already implicitly share the premise I am advocating and who instinctively feel that it is correct, I hope that the value I offer here is to put this premise in its clearest and most explicit terms, to bring into focus and reveal to the world a new kind of libertarianism, a better kind.
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Commissioners agree to fund part of Johnson Lake trail
LEXINGTON—Funding for another section of the hike and bike trail around Johnson Lake got a boost last week as Dawson County commissioners agreed to help pay for a short stretch on the north side of the lake.
Saying they respect what the lake does for the economy of the county, commissioners voted to contribute $60,000 toward the $172,656 it will cost to complete 1.09 miles of trail on the northernmost end of the lake.
Chuck Olsen, a representative of the trails committee, told the county board on Aug. 15 that safety is the main concern with the bike trail.
"Our goal is to find a way around the lake so those on the bike trail surrounding the lake would have a safe and accessible off-road route," Olsen said.
The trail around the lake has been divided into 11 segments.
The north piece is 1.09 miles from Road 751 to the Lakeshore Marina, with .7 mile in Dawson County.
The remainder of the cost will be shared by donors and Central Nebraska Public Power & Irrigation District.
To help convince commissioners of the importance of the trail, Lexington bicyclist Anne Eilers shared her own story about being hit while biking and suffering a brain injury.
"I love to bike there and so do a lot of other people," she said. "We need a place where we can feel safe. There's not even a shoulder on the Johnson Lake road."
A kickoff and non-traditional ground-breaking ceremony will begin at noon on Aug. 25 at the lake, Olsen said.
In other action, commissioners voted to deny an $1,800 claim by Gothenburg land owner Ron Klein.
Klein is at odds with the county over 900 feet of fence he says was destroyed by county employees while they were clearing a county drainage ditch of debris.
The county maintains the fence was encroaching the county right-of-way but has agreed to rebuild the fence at the same value it was when it was removed.
Klein has refused that settlement, requesting a new fence.
Deputy county attorney Kurt McBride said he will inform Klein of the denial again.
"If he were to file a lawsuit, I'm confident we have testimony in our favor," McBride said.
In other county business, commissioners:
heard the monthly crime report from sheriff Gary Reiber. There were 1,693 calls to dispatch in July with 984 calls for service, 232 new inmate bookings and an average daily jail population of 127.6 inmates.
received an agency update from the Dawson County Ag Society with some plans for the year to come that include replacement of windows in the 4-H cafe, a sound system in the grandstands, renovation of the hog and sheep barn and an awning on the north side of Stevens Arena. The ag society is partially funded by the county through a political subdivision tax levy.
approved a resolution for design relaxation for the Overton southwest road project. Road superintendent Jon Mooberry said the plan was designed and stamped for approval in 2003 and regulations have since changed. The design relaxation resolution will allow the project to continue without large additions to the engineering plan and could push it forward.
discussed with Kevin Prior of Olsson Associates modifications planned on the Cozad Canal. Prior told the board some of the work will be in county right-of-way and some drainage routes will likely change.
The interaction between Prior and the county was not intended for approval purposes but rather information exchange.
No action was taken by commissioners but they agreed to work closely with Mooberry to work to eliminate future drainage concerns.
authorized acceptance of state funds to help pay for a new bus for the Dawson County Transit System. The state will provide $38,891 and the county will contribute $9,723. Most of the county's commitment will come from funds received through rides provided to Health and Human Services clients. Receipt of the new vehicle is not expected until fall of next year.
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Made with all-organic Tulsi, hibsicus, cinnamon, lemon peel, and orange peel, this delicate caffeine-free blend supposedly enhances the immune system and serves as an anti-stress agent. The tulsi provides a mild minty green flavor, but it doesn't stick out from the rest—the flavors get a bit muddled, though some of our tasters appreciated found the tea more multidimensional than other hibiscus teas we've tried (such as Tazo's Passion). Try it on ice.
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Last year, a 9-year-old Cleveland Heights, OH, boy was taken from his mother and put in protective custody after his weight ballooned to almost 220 pounds. In a desperate move to save the child from potential complications, including diabetes and other harmful side effects of obesity, the boy was placed in the care of an uncle and has since shed 50 pounds in four months—enough to warrant a return home, reports MSNBC.
Plus: Good Parenting the Key to Healthy Kids
Compared to the normal 60 pounds a child his age should weigh, the Ohio boy was over three-and-a-half times his recommended size, according to government growth charts. A strict diet and exercise regimen has started him on the fast track to recovery.
While living with his uncle, the boy visited the gym three nights a week for the past four months, and upon his return home, the local YMCA gifted memberships to him and his mother. He has also been encouraged to continue swimming and playing basketball—other hobbies he has adopted since his time away.
Plus: Parenting's Guide to Childhood Obesity
Although the boy was under protective supervision since returning to his mother in March, that mandate was recently lifted. Social service workers plan to check in on the boy regularly and have also offered him and his mother nutritional and health counseling.
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Eastern's campus is just 17 miles from Washington's second largest city, Spokane. However, it is a matter of minutes from more than 20 lakes, beautiful mountains and the Turnbull National Wildlife refuge; all of which offer fishing, hiking, biking, boating, wildlife watching and more. This unique geographic positioning allows students the serenity to focus on their studies, the spirit of a small college town, the recreational opportunities of the Northwest and the invaluable internship opportunities and civic involvement offered by a major metropolitan area. It's no wonder over 10,000 students (and counting) now make Eastern their home away from home.
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Block & Leviton LLP Investigates Virgin Media, Inc. for Possible Breaches of Fiduciary Duty in Connection with Its Acquisition by Liberty Global Inc.
Feb 06, 2013, 10:04 EST
BOSTON, Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Block & Leviton LLP (www.blockesq.com), a Boston-based law firm representing investors nationwide, has commenced an investigation into possible breaches of fiduciary duty by the Board of Directors of Virgin Media, Inc. ("Virgin" or the "Company") (NASDAQ : VMED) concerning the proposed acquisition of the Company by Liberty Global Inc. ("Liberty") in a cash and stock transaction.
Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Virgin shareholders will receive $17.50 in cash, 0.2582 Liberty Series A shares and 0.1928 Liberty Global Series C shares for each Virgin share that they hold. Based on Liberty's Series A share price of $69.46 and Series C share price of $64.50 as of February 4, 2013, this implies a price of $47.87 per Virgin share. Total value for the transaction is estimated at approximately $16 billion. The Company's share price has increased more than 45% between June 2012 and February 2013, and the stock was likely to continue its growth well beyond the offer price. Neil Berkett, CEO of Virgin, is expected to receive at least between $65 million to $85 million upon the consummation of the sale. Currently, shareholders will collect a paltry 24% premium on the previous day's closing price. As such, it appears that the proposed offer price provides an insufficient premium to shareholders.
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Does a glass of warm milk before bedtime really contain enough of the amino acid tryptophan to help you fall asleep? Yes.
A number of studies suggest that drinking warm milk before retiring for the night not only can shorten the amount of time it takes to fall asleep but also make the sleep more restful.
Not only the warm milk, but the act of warming the milk, of taking care of yourself, in a quiet setting also helps. It could be an "auto-suggestive technique" akin to "low-level hypnotherapy" that proves calming enough to bring on sleep.
Whatever the mechanism, for the estimated 10 to 17 percent of the adult U.S. population with insomnia, warm milk may be worth considering. Add in the millions of Americans who choose to burn the candle at both ends by averaging no more than seven hours of sleep a night when they should be getting at least eight, and you've got the majority of the population in a sleep-deprivation epidemic.
It's serious. Some $100 billion is lost yearly in productivity, sick leave, medical expenses, and property damage due to lack of sleep, according to the National Sleep Foundation.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that more than 100,000 crashes a year are caused by drivers nodding off behind the wheel. Thousands die in these accidents.
Admittedly, a glass of warm milk isn't going to solve the nation's sleep problem. But paying attention to what you consume—and when—can benefit the quality and quantity of your slumber. Here are several other food-related "sleep hygiene" steps to consider.
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In 1933, Man Ray produced the plaster Portrait of Joella Bayer, the wife of gallery owner Julien Levy. For the exhibition held the following year in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, Salvador Dalí became involved pictorially in the portrait made from plaster, transforming the piece into a sculpture-object.
To mark the new installations in the permanent Collection in November 2014, the piece Lanas (Yarns) by the artist Juan Hidalgo was assembled. The work, defined by the artist himself as a Zaj environment, was on view for the first time in the German Institute in Madrid in May 1972 to celebrate an end-of-term party, before being exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in 2009, in the exhibition The Pamplona Encounters 1972: The End of the Party for Experimental Art.
During the Richard Hamilton retrospective held in the Museo Reina Sofía in 2014, the works exhibited included two installations that now form part of the Museo's Collection: Man, Machine & Motion, initially exhibited in 1955 in the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle and ICA, London, and An Exhibit, produced in 1957 and also exhibited in the Hatton Gallery, in collaboration with the artists Victor Pasmore and Lawrence Alloway.


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Being Seeds, Planting Seeds: Ministry in Trust and Hope - Stephanie Crumley-Effinger
This message was delivered by Stephanie Crumley-Effinger, Director of Supervised Ministry, ESR, on the occasion of the 2011 Baccalaureate worship.
Scripture: John 12:20-24 NRSV
Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
Excerpts from letters of George Fox
From Epistle 189 . . . wait and not matter the weather, storms, winds, hail, rain when you are to sow the Seed, nor the rough ground that is to be tilled. For the [farmer] waits patiently after the Seed is sown. There is a winter before the summer comes . . .
From Epistle 275 . . . all come into the vineyard of God to labor in the Light . . . and in the Truth and Power of God . . . Some are breakers of clods in the vineyards. Some are weeders. Some are cutting off brambles and bushes, fitting the ground and cutting up the roots with the heavenly axe, for the Seed. Some are harrowing in. Some are gathering and laying up the riches. So, you see, here are merchants, plowmen, harrowers, weeders, reapers, threshers in God's vineyard: yet none are to find fault with [one] another, but everyone laboring in their own places, praising the Lord, looking to him for their wages, their heavenly penny of life from the Lord of Life . . .
(The Power of the Lord is Over All: The Pastoral Letters of George Fox,
edited and introduced by T. Canby Jones, 1989, Friends United Press,
pages 144-145 and268-270 )
" . . . unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
This spring I have been watching the result of seeds dying so as to bear fruit. In mid-February, I had surgery and then about six weeks mostly spent recovering from it. About 10 days after I got home from the hospital, my nephew Gabriel came over to visit, and I enlisted his help in my becoming a small-time marigold farmer. Very small-time. I gave Gabe a shallow round plastic container, about the size of a medium pizza pan, and we went out onto my front porch where there are several flower pots with dirt in them from last summer's flowers.
In my state of weak inability to do much of anything except sit up for short periods of time, I sat on a chair on the porch and directed Gabe in putting about an inch and a half of dirt in the plastic container and leveling it. We went back in the house and he fetched me another flower pot, this one full of dried-out marigold flowers from last summer that I had put in there when I dead-headed the plants. (Hold it up.) I crumbled several of them and scattered the seeds over the dirt. Then I sprinkled some dirt over the seeds and watered them. Gabe set the container in a patch of sun on the kitchen floor near the side door, and the waiting began. A few days later the first slender green shoots appeared, and I called Gabe to announce "The marigolds are coming up!" Some of them emerged with the shell of the seed on top like a little hat.
Every day for the rest of my convalescence, which felt like a long unproductive time, and most of the days since, I have enjoyed checking on the progress of my miniature marigold farm, keeping it watered and being sure to pick up the container whenever our baby friend Prestynn came over, since little kids love to mess with dirt! The sprouts have gone from being tiny and spindly, to having several leaves and now the leaves have assumed the recognizable spiky marigold shape. I don't know if they will actually bring forth flowers, but it is immensely satisfying to have seen them develop even this far.
Later I transplanted the seedlings to some deeper containers with more dirt so that the roots would have room to grow, and I brought one of those with me today. When I transplanted the seedlings it stirred up the dirt enough that a few more seeds sprouted, so there are marigold plants at different stages in the container. One of the dried-out flower heads had not gotten completely broken up when I crumbled it, and a set of seedlings were growing close together out of the husk of the flower base.
While a marigold seed isn't precisely a grain of wheat, my adventures with marigold farming connect me to this story of Jesus talking about his forthcoming death. I am sure that the Greek people who had come to meet him, and the disciples Andrew and Philip who served as go-betweens, were taken aback when the Teacher offered these startling words, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
The various gospels portray Jesus preparing his followers for his death in an almost matter-of-fact way. It seems unreal and overly calm. Even the depiction of his prayer asking that the cup be taken from him seems too low-key for someone facing death.
The 1970's rock opera Jesus Christ, Superstar treats this very differently in the song "Gethsemane", a musical midrash in which composer Andrew Lloyd Webber portrays Jesus struggling painfully with the idea of his approaching death. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2cCuadivpE Jesus articulates fears and doubts, saying "I'm not as sure as when we started – then I was inspired, now I'm sad and tired. I want to know, my God, I'd want to see, my God, Why should I die?" He questions God at length, asking, "Would I be more noticed than I ever was before? Would the things I've said and done matter any more? Can you show me now that I would not be killed in vain?" Jesus laments and argues, "Show me there's a reason for your wanting me to die!" Wearing himself out with emotion andgrief, he wonders "Why am I scared to finish what I started – what you started – I didn't start it!" The song concludes with Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus voicing a reluctant acceptance –
"God, Thy will is hard, but you hold every card.
I will drink your cup of poison, nail me to your cross, and break me;
bleed me, beat me, kill me, take me – now – before I change my mind."
While my theology differs from that expressed in this verse, I deeply appreciate the way this song draws us into the sense of Jesus's dilemma as he sought to be faithful to his ministry, even though death would be the consequence of his faithfulness. The image of a grain of wheat falling into the earth and dying so that it could bear fruit is given a vividness regarding what the "dying" part signified.
So why, on the occasion of our joyously celebrating the approaching graduation of the ESR class of 2011, am I drawn to talking about death as the gateway to new life?
One reason is that over the years of your time at ESR, you seniors have experienced this in a variety of ways. The journey of your studenthood, of learning and formation for ministry, involved moments and perhaps even long periods, of various forms of loss and, even, of death. Old ways of understanding, comfortable patterns of knowing, some relationships with important people, have had to change or have been lost, in order to make way for new forms of knowing, ways of practicing faithfulness, of relating, being, doing ministry. You have known much joy and sense of accomplishment, but you have also known grief and loss. Some of your lives as "seed" have had to die in order to make way for the fruit of what God is doing in and with you. It has not been easy to break out of the hard shell that coats the inner part of the seed, so as to allow the tender seedling to emerge. We, your faculty and staff and fellow students, families and friends, who are on this journey with you, have watched, at times with a sense of real helplessness, when at some points you struggled and flailed around in this process. And we have rejoiced with you when you have come through a period of such struggle to new light and life.
"Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." Part of what we have sought to encourage, nurture, and uphold is the envisioning of what else is possible for this broken world of ours, and the steadfast commitment to being God's faithful people, living into the peaceable kingdom now, providing leadership of different kinds in response to the needs of the world. Sometimes your hearts have broken as you have looked at the challenges which you feel called to address in ministry. That is part of what it means to have the single grain of oneself die so as to bear much fruit. And I promise that it will happen again, because to seek to live in the kingdom of God means that we are called to imagine things that do not now exist, and to face opposition from a world that is not always ready for the new life to which Jesus called people.
Author Brian McLarenin his book A New Kind of Christianity, writes eloquently of the connection among dying, new life, and God's kingdom:
Jesus's death and resurrection . . . are a paradigmatic summons to participation and anticipation. True, the transformed future desired by God isn't achieved by human effort, strategy, or wisdom apart from God. But neither is it achieved by God working apart from humanity . . . No, a better future comes as we join Jesus first in dying (metaphorically by dying to our pride, our agendas, our schedules, our terms, or literally [by dying] through martyrdom as witnesses for God's kingdom and justice), and then in rising, through the mysterious but real power of God. In this cruciform way, we participate in the ongoing work of God, and we anticipate its ultimate success. (pp. 200-201)
So in addition to being seeds, we plant seeds. This image came through powerfully in the quotes from George Fox's letters that Vivian read. We "are breakers of clods in the vineyards . . . weeders . . . Some . . . cutting off brambles and bushes, fitting the ground and cutting up the roots with the heavenly axe, for the Seed." We don't do ministry out of certainty of particular results. Just like regular farmers, we invest in our crop without being certain that it will come through the exigencies of weather, insects, etc. We invest in ministry in faith and hope, in trust that even when we can't see the results of what we are doing, as often we cannot, that it is worth doing.
The hymn "That Cause Can Neither Be Lost Nor Stayed" expresses these themes exquisitely. It is on page 264 of the hymnal, and to lead us into the final part of the message I invite anyone who wish to do so to remain seated and sing it with me a cappella, and whoever doesn't want to sing is welcome just to sit and listen.
"That Cause Can Neither Be Lost Nor Stayed"
1. That cause can neither be lost nor stayed
Which takes the course of what God has made;
And is not trusting in walls and towers,
But slowly growing from seeds to flowers.
2. Each noble service that has been wrought
Was first conceived as a fruitful thought;
Each worthy cause with a future glorious
By quietly growing becomes victorious.
3. Thereby itself like a tree it shows;
That high it reaches as deep it grows
And when the storms are its branches shaking,
It deeper root in the soil is taking.
4. Be then no more by a storm dismayed,
For by it the full-grown seeds are laid;
And thought the tree by its might it shatters,
What then, if thousands of seeds it scatters?
(Worship in Song: A Friends Hymnal, Friend General Conference, 1996
Words: Kristian Ostergaard, trans. from the Danish by J. C. Aaberg.
Music: J. Nellemann [Danish folk tune])
We invest in God's possibilities, trusting that more is happening than is visible to our eyes, and that even when something wonderful meets its death, seeds of new possibilities are scattered in life-giving ways. And when there are tangible positive results, we celebrate them and hang onto them as sustenance and encouragement for the days when we don't know if we make a difference at all.
Like Jesus, we do this as part of God's work that is much bigger than our individual role, and yet needs our particular contribution. In the words of theologian Jurgen Moltmann
We live in an unjust, hostile, and divided world. We live and suffer in an ongoing struggle for power. We must therefore take sides with the poor, the weak, and the victims of violence, if we want to work for a universal redemption and anticipate the coming liberating and healing justice of God. God's justice is first of all for the victims of sin, and then thereby also for the slaves of sin, to overcome sin on both sides. The liberation of the oppressed is the first option and includes as the second option also the healing of the oppressors. For overcoming the power of sin and evil we need liberation on both sides. It is God's own action in history to take sides of the victims and to redeem the perpetrators from their violence through this partisanship.
(Jurgen Moltmann
from "The Final Judgment: Sunrise of Christ's Liberating Justice," Anglican Theological Review 89/4 (2007): 565-76,
per McLaren, p. 286, footnote 18.33)
In ministry we seek to participate in what God has gotten underway, not try to do it by ourselves. We don't do ministry because we are enough or have enough or know all that is needed or are assured of the results for which we hope. We offer what we have in hope, and trust that more will be supplied. We seek to be part of what God is doing in the lives of individuals and groups among whom we minister, of actions of God that began before us and will continue after us, rather than thinking that we can supply all of what is needed. We are seeds and we plant seeds and we seek to follow the Seed for the sake of the beloved community, the peaceable kingdom, the reign of God.
Finally, as we move into waiting worship, I invite you to ponder this picture set created by ESR alumna Melanie Weidner, entitled "Unless It Dies". It, too, portrays death leading to new life, as here a peach becomes the seedling of a new tree.
What do you notice as you look at this series of pictures?
Does one of the images particularly resonate with you?
As you think about yourself this evening, where might you be within this story?
What might be dying within you and what might be sprouting into new life?


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Re: ASSURITY PAYROLL CHANGES
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:42 am
Again, cudo's on the articulation. More smoke and mirror buzz words of late though. Shorts a little tight? PNC pulling out has to be a concern, though I'm certain your reply will include the usual 'former Wall Street Guru' hot air.
I too can lay claim to all manner of former accomplishments and experiences in our industry, from the street to "The Street". But then I personally know a former mega star, credentialed not unlike yourself, who's storys revolved around his accomplishments in pictures of his former horse ranch, probably not unlike your Castle Rock spread, personal jet, and significant office complex. His right up until the forfeiture hearing on his way to Club Fed.
Ironically, he was undone by former employees distressed by their treatment at the company; A systematic reduction in ranks over time to avoid Fed scrutiny. Didn't Assurity just complete another mass layoff Friday? Some were troubled by the changes in compensation plans that delayed their being paid for their efforts. Didn't you recently change commissions to payable on sale of the loan rather than funding, under the guise of 'teamwork'? Yet others testified they were consistently directed to delay underwriting and closing by indicating conditions were 'not received' or 'unaccepable'. I had the chance to review an FHA someone wanted to transfer to me from Assurity that included copies of conditions and the processers cc to the originator. email copy included, that the underwiter said was missing items clearly included.
Most others bailed when they were required to sign a blanket credit card authorization agreemnt and agree to be charged whatever he thought was owed. Pretty much a blanket right for him to take everything they made. I understand that any originator at Assurity who fails to sign this same type agreement by this coming Friday will be terminated. Am I hearing that correctly?
Oh. Any truth to the rumor that the Assurity Originator Employment Agreement contains a provision that terminated employees forfeit all unpaid commissions?
So is this the death knell we are hearing, or just an opportunity for you to spew enough hot air to power a geothermal plant that could heat Denver on the oldest day of the year?
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Re: ASSURITY PAYROLL CHANGES
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:16 am
If you call "the death nell" having a huge pipeline of loans to fund, a great couple of trailing months' profitability, and a couple more interested warehouse banks that want us as a customer, then I guess we're dead. LOL!!!
I would encourage you to read the Nat City / PNC thread, where I openly commented on the whole warehouse line issue. Here's the link:
I don't know if 4 or 5 terminations classifies as a "mass layoff," but if that meets the definition, then I guess we had a mass layoff, too. My definition would be improving our FTE / Funded Loan count and driving down our cost per closed loan for the health of the organization, but I'm just your average idiot shareholder.
Regarding collecting credit card info from retail loan officers to avoid accounts receivable issues related to their charging credit reports, DU fees, appraisals, etc. in the company's name and then potentially not being able to meet their obligations to the company, this is good accounts receivable management. I don't know about you, but I just hate to see that line item that says, "Bad debt expense" on the income statement. It's actually unfortunate that we have had to do this, because most of our loan officers are very good about settling up. But like so many other situations, the sins of the few require the policy change for the many. It's just business - it's not personal.
Regarding commissions, if you quit, you lose your commissions unless the loan is funded. Our philosophy is that if the rest of the staff has to do the work to get deals across the finish line, we're going to go ahead and make the commissions, too. It is true that this is in our loan officer agreement. Some people choose to sign it; others don't. We certainly don't force anyone to.
The question isn't how stressful is the current environment, it's how do YOU respond to the stress.
I eat it for breakfast.
"When they came for everyone else, I said nothing. Then, when they came for me, there was no one left to listen."
Calvin B. Hamler, AMP
CEO & Managing Member
Assurity Financial Services, LLC
Last edited by Calvin Hamler on Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:33 am; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:58 am
Wow - someone has had a few too many lattes tonite!!!!!
Lighten up, Calvin, this is not prison, just a job. It sounds like the goodwill between employer and employee at your shop is in the negative territory. Why would anyone work for you? Sign an agreement to have my credit card charged for credit reports? Where is your risk? Don't you own the company? Maybe you can have the people who work there clean up and make lunch too.
You need to listen to yourself, but I guess your second tag line speaks for itself (looks like good advice for anyone still working for you)
You sound greedy, mean and short sighted, and who wants to eat stressful environment for breakfast?
Calvin Hamler
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Re: ASSURITY PAYROLL CHANGES
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:06 am
Sorry if I may sound too harsh or shrewd to some. I'm just trying to be smart about our accounts receivable management and make sure that we don't incur bad debt expense. We have admittedly been burned by loan officers charging up large bills and then walking.
I very much view the relationship between employer and employee as one that has to be win / win to succeed.
I probably sounded defensive because I was attacked. You have to understand, this person frequently comes in and lights up the anti-Assurity threads all at once about every two weeks, to try to get our name at the top of the forums in a negative manner. Why? Beats me. But I feel the need to set the record straight and to let everyone know where we stand on policy issues.
I support not only our retail loan officers, but our wholesale broker partners, as well. Fact of the matter is that I make my money the same way our retail and wholesale customers do - by funding loans.
To that end, we are all on the same side of the fence.
I hope that sets the record straight on where I stand with respect to the relationships at hand.
"When they came for everyone else, I said nothing. Then, when they came for me, there was no one left to listen."
Calvin B. Hamler, AMP
CEO & Managing Member
Assurity Financial Services, LLC
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:36 am
Question: Calvin, are you saying your loan officers are responsible for credit reports, du finding, etc. Are these not the cost of doing business and charged to the customer in some sort of fee? It seems to me that you are making sure that an individual is bound to stay because you wil always owe a good loan officer 30 days or more of pay.
Being in management, we are selling our loans quickly, but if one falls thru the cracks, it certainly isnt the loan officers fault, especially by your own admission, you play the market after the closing. You said in a previous post that everyone was going to this. Not so, I think companies that are trying to delay payroll are doing this. A good loan officer is hard to find, treat them well and they will stay, they dont need to be held hostage for 30-45 days of pay.
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Location: louisiana
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:37 am
one more question: do you brokers have to put up their own yield spread when the loan closes and wait for it to fund?
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Re: ASSURITY PAYROLL CHANGES
Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:02 pm
Charging the LO for the credit report?
Try charging the BORROWER. If a borrower won't fork out 20 bucks or so for a credit report, he's not serious about getting a mortgage anyway.
What's next? Charging the LO for the appraisal and titlework?
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Hamler is a complete scammer
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 11:04 pm
Calvin has become a partner in a consulting firm that is falling on hard times. Insiders say their demise is imminent due in no small part to his unethical, immoral and shady business dealings.
It appears that lightning DOES strike twice!
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: By the vending machine, drinking tea.
And yes...total MILF!!!!! (Still like Nice Hilda better though)
|2012-07-19, 09:49
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Dollars
Something about this Solomon group seems suspicious. I mean, in a way that it's a group that seems to have an antagonistic relationship with Beel's father faction considering Hilda's reaction in this chapter...
Anyway, Beel's mother is hot I'd reckon that his father is hot too when he's not that weird.
|2012-07-19, 10:12
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well if kaguyama is a girl... then its a very very flat girl >_>... since its kinda strange that in many panels kaguyamas chest is kinda covered with pillows and such XD
the hairstyle and small tedy bear isnt really that manly :P time will tell but it will be a shocker for everyone there... mostly even hilda throught that this guy is a male and not female so it will be a shock for her too xD
but if its a guy then sadly no real fun...
|2012-07-19, 10:41
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|2012-07-19, 10:42
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U mad?
Join Date: Apr 2012
This was one of the more entertaining chapters, Himekawa is still the same as kindergarten. He picked Ishiyama because it suited his hair more
Himekawa the shock devil got done in by a taser, talk about irony.
Beel's mother looks good, she does resemble Aoi a bit.
|2012-07-19, 12:39
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Well played, Tamura Ryuuhei, well played.
Seriously, I was expecting an ugly as hell doodle or a painting of the demon king's crotch, instead we get THAT. And it was a masterful move (intentional or not) to add that useless flashback to make us lower our guards even more.
And yes, Beel's mom is hot.
P.S: With Assasination's Nagisa and Kugayama, traps may be slowly making her way into Jump.
|2012-07-19, 18:19
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It was sure nice build up and gave really good feeling after painting turned out to be Baby Beel's mother. Lord En and Baby Beel bears a resemblance to his father. It's a shame that there are no sibling who looks after their mother though but I wouldn't be suprised if there are more siblings shows up in the future chapters and I hope that these brothers or sisters of- yeah sister! I hope we could see big sister of Baby Beel and En in the future. That would be really sweet and if she resembles to their mother. Anyways I'm looking forward to learn more about Greaty's wife in the next chapter and I wonder what kind of reaction will Baby Beel give since he looks like he never seen his mother before. So I'm guessing that she either died after she gave birth to Baby Beel or get killed in some sort or died because of some of fatal sickness.
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LOL @ Chibi Himekawa, sporting that look at that age, mad props to him for do so and making it work!
Count me as one that thinks Kugayama has gotta be a girl, he's way too girly in them flashbacks to think otherwise.
Some were hoping Kugayama was gonna be a girl to begin with we might still get that!
Now didn't know what to expect from the painting, it was always 50/50 on something crazy stupid or amazing, we got amazing.
And finally some light shed on Baby B's mother and as expected she is very pretty.
I just hope we don't get the "her already passing away" storyline, that would suck but I don't think we'll see that happen.
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After throwing a complete-game shutout in Linfield baseball's NCAA Division III McMinnville Regional opener, junior pitcher Chris Haddeland got to finish what he started.
Haddeland, a McMinnville High School graduate, supported a strong start by Justin Davis (5 2/3 innings pitched, two hits allowed) with a two-inning save Saturday afternoon as the Wildcats defeated Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 4-2, to win the regional and advance to the NCAA Division III College World Series.
Linfield (37-7) went 4-0 in the regional, including two victories over the Pointers (32-13), to return to the Division III CWS, where it is the defending national champion.
Included in that stretch was a 3-2 game against Stevens Point on Friday that ended in controversy at Roy Helser Field. Pointers third baseman Kyle McHugh hit the potential game-tying home run in the bottom of the eighth inning but did not touch first base. The error was spotted by Wildcats coach Scott Brosius; Linfield appealed to first base, won the appeal and won the game an inning later.
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When she left Iran for the US in 1997, Azar Nafisi found that she was able to write with a freedom that she had not known since she was last in America as a student in the 1970s. Long muffled by Iranian censorship, she took advantage of her liberty to write a damaging and eloquent account of the Islamic Republic. Damaging, but indirect, for Reading Lolita in Tehran1 is about reading well-known works of English and American literature in a totalitarian environment—about entering a fictional world whose morally ambiguous characters resist the leveling effects of ideology. In revolutionary Tehran, Nafisi writes, reading Invitation to a Beheading, Pride and Prejudice, and, of course, Lolita offered "a critical way of appraising and grasping the world." In a political system that aims ruthlessly to homogenize, to impose a code of behavior and thought, fiction can be a weapon of resistance.
During the decade or so that she spent teaching English literature at Tehran University and at Allameh Tabatabai University, also in Tehran, in addition to two years of private instruction of a class of young women, Nafisi was engaged in resistance. By setting very demanding standards of Islamic virtue from its citizens, the Islamic Republic has made criminals of millions of them. Nafisi was expelled from Tehran University for declining to wear the hejab, the Islamic head- and body-cover that the Iranian authorities have made mandatory. Later, at Allameh Tabatabai, she wore the hejab with contemptuous sloppiness; she ate ham and drank vodka after both had been banned; she had the temerity to try to shake the hand of a male student; and she taught Lolita to her private class, despite its perversion of what Islam, no less than any other religion, regards as a sacred relationship between a guardian and his juvenile charge.
Nafisi regards Reading Lolita in Tehran as an optimistic book about the "transformative power of literature." It contains a description of an exuberantly democratic classroom "trial," suggested by Nafisi herself, of The Great Gatsby, which has offended her Islamist and leftist students. The account of the trial goes on for pages, but some brief quotes can suggest its flavor. One of the Muslim students, Mr. Nyazi, states a case for the prosecution. "The only sympathetic person here," he says, "is the cuckolded husband, Mr. Wilson. When he kills Gatsby, it is the hand of God. He is the only victim. He is the only gen-uine symbol of the oppressed, in the land of…the Great Satan!" A young woman, Zarrin, defends the book:
Careless is the first adjective that comes to mind when describing the rich in this novel. The dream they embody is an alloyed dream that destroys whoever tries to get close to it. So you see, Mr. Nyazi, this book is no less a condemnation of your wealthy upper classes than any of the revolutionary books we have read.
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The Predators have not won at home since Feb. 27, dropping five straight in regulation before Tuesday's 5-4 shootout setback to the Colorado Avalanche. Nashville failed to hold a number of leads in the game, including two in the third period.
Nashville's current rut at home has contributed to the club falling nine points back of a playoff spot with nine games to play.
Matt Cullen and Roman Josi both had two goals for the Predators, who fell to 15-17-5 at home on the season and have lost four of their last six overall. Pekka Rinne made 24 saves.
"We didn't make strong plays when we had those leads," said Nashville head coach Barry Trotz.
Forward Calle Jarnkrok, who the Predators acquired from the Detroit Red Wings prior to the trade deadline for David Legwand, notched an assist in the loss and has a helper in each of his first three NHL games.
But while Jarnkrok is seeking to get comfortable with Nashville, rookie defenseman Seth Jones missed his first game of the season due to concussion- like symptoms.
While Nashville's playoff chances are fading, the Sabres have known for a while they will not be playing postseason hockey. They are last in the NHL with 48 points and have lost nine of their last 10 games.
Buffalo was shut out for the 10th time this season with Tuesday's 2-0 setback to the Montreal Canadiens. The Sabres fell to 8-24-3 on the road this season as well.
Matt Hackett, making just his second start of the season, stopped 33 shots in a tough-luck loss that dropped the Sabres to 1-3-0 on a five-game swing.
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Myers returned on Tuesday from a five-game absence caused by an elbow issue and left the game briefly in the third period after crashing into the post.
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Pratt County District Court Reporter Tami Morse has retired after almost 34 years as court reporter in Pratt for the 30th Judicial District. Morse was recognized with a farewell ceremony Friday afternoon at the courthouse from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Morse and husband Scott are moving to Sand Springs, Okla. just outside Tulsa. Morse will be continue working as a court reporter for the Tulsa County District Court. The move will put Scott and Tami close to their son Gabe, his wife Sarah and their daughter Ava Grace.


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Although not an official partnership, BlackBerry-maker RIM wanted to say well done to the boys and girls who did us proud and have been dishing out the gold smartphone to all those who have achieved great things. Among them is triathlon winner Alistair Brownlee.
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Environmental ecologist Dr. Charles A.S. Hall from the State University of New York will present a public lecture on Wednesday afternoon, January 9, as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Hall will discuss the economy and energy.
An internationally known speaker, Hall studies the interrelationships between biological communities and how they consume energy. He is particularly concerned with the validity of economic models that our government uses to formulate policy.
Hall has published 193 scientific papers and four books, including "Biophysical Economics: An Introductory Textbook in Economics for the Second Half of the Age of Oil."
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Architecture Auditorium (Architecture Building, Room 205) at UH Mānoa.
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For those who cannot attend the lecture on January 9, Hall will speak on energy issues the following day, Thursday, January 10, at 4:40 p.m. at Holmes Hall Room 244 on the UH Mānoa campus.
The Distinguished Lecture Series brings internationally recognized scholars to UH Mānoa for lectures and discussions.